Boxing Motivational Quotes - Page 2

• Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Fighting, Hands

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

  Jack Dempsey

  Motivational, Sports, Food

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• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2009

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• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Boxing, Religion, Celebration

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mistake, Fighting, Boxing

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• People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, People, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 29, 2012

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